Sinopsis
Since 2006, the weekly Skeptoid podcast has been taking on all the most popular myths and revealing the true science, true history, and true lessons we can learn from each. Free subscribers get the most recent 50 episodes, premium subscribers (skeptoid.com) can access the full archive, all ad-free.
Episodios
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Skeptoid #486: The Flying Saucer Menace
29/09/2015 Duración: 13minThe true, interwoven history of flying saucers in American folklore.
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Skeptoid #485: Holocaust Denial
22/09/2015 Duración: 13minWhy some people think the Holocaust never happened, and what to do about it.
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Skeptoid #484: More Unsung Women of Science
15/09/2015 Duración: 13minSome women you haven't heard of who made significant contributions to science.
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Skeptoid #483: Unsung Women of Science
08/09/2015 Duración: 14minThese important scientists are virtually unknown. Let's see if we can fix that.
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Skeptoid #482: Franklin's Cannibals
01/09/2015 Duración: 13minThe fate of Sir John Franklin's Lost Expedition gives a valuable lesson in types of evidence.
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Skeptoid #481: Captain Kidd's Treasure
25/08/2015 Duración: 12minThink you're going to find Captain Kidd's buried treasure on the US east coast? Think again.
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Skeptoid #480: The Nazi of Nanking
18/08/2015 Duración: 14minThis most unlikely of guardian angels saved hundreds of thousands of Chinese lives.
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Skeptoid #479: Chemicals
11/08/2015 Duración: 15minChemicals are deadly, delicious, essential and basically, everything.
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Skeptoid #478: Listener Feedback: Natural History
04/08/2015 Duración: 12minToday we're going to answer questions sent in by listeners pertaining to episodes having to do with our natural world.
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Skeptoid #477: Wag the Dogman
28/07/2015 Duración: 13minThey say that a half-canine cryptid stalks the woods of Northern Michigan. Are they right?
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Skeptoid #476: The Chess-Playing Mechanical Turk
21/07/2015 Duración: 12minAn overview of the amazing chess playing robot of the 1700s.
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Skeptoid #475: Listener Feedback: History vs. Pseudohistory
14/07/2015 Duración: 12minBrian responds to listener feedback about past history episodes.
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Skeptoid #474: Solfeggio Frequencies
07/07/2015 Duración: 13minCertain specific sonic frequencies are not the key to love, intuition, or spiritual order.
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Skeptoid #473: The Loveland Frog
30/06/2015 Duración: 14minA series of sightings of a frog-like humanoid in the suburb of Loveland, Ohio prompts an enduring folkloric legend.
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Skeptoid #472: Lysenko and Lesser Science Grifters
23/06/2015 Duración: 15minTrofim Lysenko mixed pseudoscience and ideology to set back Soviet biology.
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Skeptoid #471: Male Circumcision
16/06/2015 Duración: 16minInfant male circumcision remains common in the United States. Today we look at the reasons and the implications.
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Skeptoid #470: Marijuana
09/06/2015 Duración: 15minIn the last 50 years, marijuana has gone from menace to medicine. Which is it?
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Skeptoid #469: Jade Helm 15
02/06/2015 Duración: 14minConspiracy theory that a military training exercise is going to lead to martial law.
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Skeptoid #468: Listener Feedback: Fads
26/05/2015 Duración: 13minBrian responds to some listener feedback concerning the topic of fads.
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Skeptoid #467: Baby Myths
19/05/2015 Duración: 17minA look at some common myths about babies and children.